On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:10:23PM -1000, Joey Hess wrote: > Rainer Bendig aka Ny wrote: > > D-I installed 0,4 GB on my box!! That's a lot to much for my routers i > > want to setup the next days. (only 250M HDD). > > You probably let it install all packages of standard priority; the > standard Debian system is aout that size. This is not a bug in the > debian installer, it's arguably either a bug in the standard debian > system for being excessivly large, or with debian policy for requiring > that the standard system be installed by default. > > If you don't want all that, then don't choose to install it: In the task > selector do not install any tasks. If you do not select manual package > selection either, it will install no additional software beyond the base > system that is installed by debootstrap (with a few exceptions). If you > _do_ select manual package selection, aptitude will probably default to > adding all standard priority software, but you can tell it not to. just type 'Q' and confirm the Quit. > FWIW, the feature that lets you skip installing the standard system was > added after the release of rc3 of the installer. With the exception of > woody, which had a bug, every debian release, and every d-i release has > always installed the standard system by default. A bug that is/was a nice feature. Cheers Geert Stappers
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